ONDAR: An ontology for home automation

Smart homes are houses equipped by computational technology to assist inhabitants in several situations. To design these complex systems we have to take into account the inhabitant´s experiences and needs. A modeling language supporting the semantic aspect allows modeling close to end user needs. Such language is in general based on the concept of ontology. However research including ontologies to design smart homes is still limited. In this paper we define a smart home, we study the proposed approaches and we present ONDAR, an ontology for home automation.